Global Thought and its Ghosts
An essay which utilises short fiction and music to reflect on the teleological determinism characteristic of historical Eurocentric theorising which aspired to a global universality. How can we think theory in the ruins of such meta-narratives? Does theory still retain an emancipatory function? Can global thought also mean an excavation of wreckages, or giving voice to revisiting spectres from the past? Can such ghosts meaningfully contest the “capitalist realism” which threatens the subsumption of futurity and utopian imagining today?
Authors
- Ewan Jenkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-0122)
Institutions
- University of St Andrews (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- INTER- The Journal for Global Thought
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15664/5rrgcz65
- Primary Topic
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00